Unsurprisingly, they didn't agree on anything.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Éric Zemmour met Thursday evening for a debate on BFM TV.
From the start of the show, the head of La France Insoumise had proposed that the discussions do not turn into
"a roosters war"
.
A course of action not easy to follow as the two protagonists defended a different vision of society.
"You are a danger in my eyes, you are a danger for our country, you are a racist"
, from the start launched the LFI candidate to his opponent.
"
In your camp for two centuries, we do not debate, we guillotine, we do not invective, we ostracize,"
replied Eric Zemmour.
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"The France you see never existed"
Quickly, the debate started on migration issues, which must be, according to the polemicist,
"the priority".
"It is people like Mr. Mélenchon and the French elites who, for 40 years, have made the criminal folly of bringing in millions and millions of immigrants from an Arab-Muslim civilization, hostile to Christian civilization"
, declared the not yet officially presidential candidate.
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"The France that you see never existed"
, relaunched Jean-Luc Mélenchon, affirming that the country had always practiced
"creolization"
, that is "
the creation of a common culture of people who are in the same place.
".
“
Many of us will not let you do it.
You will not drive out Muslims, you will not force them to choose between Islam and France,
”insisted the Insoumis deputy.
"Mélenchon betrayed Mélenchon"
Eric Zemmour regretted that the LFI candidate was not indignant when
"naturalized veiled women"
.
“Mélenchon was once a republican.
Today, he is running after the natives, he is trying to run after the voters he still has
”, the polemicist mocked, considering that
“ Mélenchon betrayed Mélenchon ”.
In reply, the Insubordinate ruled that
"Zemmouristan"
resembled
"Saudi Arabia", "a country where women are demeaned, where there is the death penalty, where homosexuals are punished ..."
Response by Eric Zemmour:
"You have just described the Islamized suburbs exactly!"
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Regarding "
assimilation
", the former journalist confirmed that he had to
"give a French first name to his children"
.
"A French name is a name carried by a French"
, swept Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“No, it's a name that has been French for 1,000 years,”
cut Éric Zemmour, judging his majority opinions in society.
“When you look at the polls, you see that on the themes, which you think are my hobbies, are the hobbies of 70% of the French, no offense. So it is not I who am marginalized, it is you, ”
he stressed.
Asked about their vision of France in 2050, Jean-Luc Mélenchon judged that urgent action was needed against global warming to prevent "
the Camargue, the Marais Poitevin, Dunkirk and Bordeaux being found under water
"
.
Eric Zemmour, for his part, considered that if
“the Islamization of France”
was not interrupted,
“the people will have been gradually replaced by another people”
.
"France will be a Lebanon, a country where there will be communities, more poverty, more misery, more violence
". The polemicist concluded:
“In truth, we have a disagreement about what danger is.
He wants to save the planet.
Me, I am much more modest than him, I only want to save France ”
.
